Wringer.



. W. M. VALENTINE.

WRI NGER;

APPLIOATION FILED MAR. 28, 1911.

- Patented 1151 211912.-

INVENTDR mom/5V8 U IT D STATES PATENT oEEioE.

WILLIAM M. VALENTINE, F GLEN oovE, NEW YORK.

WRINGER.

' which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relatesin general to a new form ofwringer, and relates more particularly to a device attachable to a clothes wringer of either handor power-operated construction, and an object of my invention is to prevent the wrapping of the clothes about the wringer rolls.

l I attain the above-outlined objects by modifying the rollers in devices now in common use by grooving the same and disposing in the grooves guiding fingers mounted upon the framework of the wringer and extending through the contacting surfaces of the rollers and projecting beyond the rollers so as to carry the clothes in a tangent position to the line of direction of the rotating rollers. With the above and other objects in view, as'will more-fully hereinafter appear, the present invention consists in certain novel details of construction and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and more particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this spec-i fication, in which similar characters ofreference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures, and in which Figure 1 is a front elevation of a preferred-embodirnent of myinvention; Fig. 2 is a vertical transverse sectional view taken on a plane indicatedby the line 22 of Fig.

1 and looking in'the direction of the arrow;

Fig. 3 is a'detailed perspective view of one of the guiding fingers; and Fig. 4c is a perspective View of a roller detached from the machine. a

In the drawings I have shown for the purpose of illustration an application of my invention, a .wringer of common construction,

comprislng spaced-apart guiding standards A, journaled in which are rollers 13, one above the other and held in flexible engage- ,ment with one another by a yoke spring C bearing upon the uppermost roller. These rollers are actuated by a crank wheel D, and motion is transmitted to the rollers by gear Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed March 28, 1911. Serial No. 617,383.

PatentedMay 21, 1912 wheels E. To this extent the wringer is of any general well-known construction.

Disposed across the face of the standards 6, conforming to the curvature of the rollers,

oneend of each of which fingers being bent outwardly from the general semi-cylindrical configuration of the body portion, to form an attaching eye 7 fastened to the board 5 by a screw 8 passing through said eye 7. The guide finger extends in a horizontal position to a point on the roller just below a point common to a vertical'tangent to the periphery 'of the roller B. After passing well beyond the contacting point of the roller B, the rear free ends of the fingers are bent outwardly,as shown at 10, to afford a guideway for the clothes after they have passed between the rollers. Similarly disposed above the board 5 is an upper dashboard or connecting strip 11, to therear side of which is connected a series of similarly shaped upper guiding fingers 12 disposed in grooves 13, which grooves, in the upper roller, are disposed between adjacent grooves int-he lower roller.

While the device is described as being provided with grooves-and'fingers in both the upper and the lower rollers, it is to be understood that, if desired, I may confine the grooves and fingers to but one of the rollers. The grooves are of a depth merely su'flicien't to accommodate the fingers, so that the two rollers may remain flush.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desireto secure by Letters Patent 1. In a clothes wringer, contacting'rollers one disposed above the other and contacting along their entire length, each of said rollers having grooves disposed therein, each of the grooves in one roller offset from the next adjacent groove in the other roller, and guiding fingers disposed in saidgrooves, said I guldlng fingers constituting a means for taking the clothes off the rollers after they have passed the contact points between'the rollers.

2. In a wringer, a pair of contacting rollers circumferentially grooved and one disposed above the other, the grooves in one roller being ofi'set transversely from the grooves in the other roller, a pair of dash boards positioned across the front of the rollers, one of said dash-boards disposed above and the other below the meeting edges the wringer by the free ends of said guid- 19 of said rollers, and a series of U-shaped ing fingers. e l

guiding fingers having one end fastened to In testimony whereof I have signed my said boards, each finger having its crotch name to this specification in the presence of disposed in one of the grooves in the rollers, two subscribing witnesses.

and its free end extending away from the W'ILLIAM M. VALENTINE." groove whereby clothing may be fed through Witnesses: h said wringer Without being wrapped about V. S. ORTON;

the rollers and Will be guided away from PHILIP D. ROLLHAUS. 

